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Improve awareness of planning developments

Devassist from Searches UK allows solicitors to avoid costly damages claims by providing detailed information about clients' prospective properties

Mediation: The question is not if, but when

Refusing to engage with ADR has significant risks, irrespective of merits or another party's conduct, warn Richard Foss and Katherine Pymont

Devolved assemblies

Total number of laws passed in the UK increased by 16 per cent in 2014  

The great escape

When trouble is brewing at home and there is little sign of it subsiding, we might all benefit from taking a leaf out of the Brazilian president's book

The barons are innocent, but what of the Lord Chancellors?

Three of the world's top judicial minds recently declared the Magna Carta barons not guilty of treason, in a special event organised by the UK Supreme Court.

Welcome guidance

Until relatively recently there had been little judicial guidance regarding the use and effect of trust jurisdiction clauses.

ULaw cashback: A wishy-washy PR exercise is just not good enough

ULaw can of course put into practice whatever strategy it deems likely to make it money, discusses John van der Luit-Drummond

HMRC defeats accelerated payments legal challenge

The tax authority expects to issue 64,000 notices by 2016 and bring in £5.5bn in disputed tax